For the second time in two weeks, the United States has deployed two aircraft carriers to the South China Sea, the US Navy said yesterday, as China and

Heavy rains lashing India’s financial capital of Mumbai have caused the collapse of a multi-storey building, killing six people and injuring several, authorities said.

The Trump administration is considering banning travel to the United States by all members of the Chinese Communist Party and their families, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday, an idea that China dismissed as absurd.

Six-year-old Bridger Walker, who was mauled after shielding his four-year-old sister from a charging dog earlier this month, has caught the attention of celebrities, including Captain America himself.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh yesterday assured that “not an inch of our land can be taken by any power in the world” as he interacted with the Indian Army and ITBP personnel at Lukung in Ladakh.

A government-appointed commission promoting the rights of India’s religious minorities said police failed to protect Muslims campaigning against a new citizenship law during violent riots in Delhi this year.

Coronavirus cases in India passed one million yesterday, official data showed as authorities struggle to check the spread of the deadly pandemic across the world’s second-most populous nation.

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her daughter Aaradhya, who were quarantined at home after testing positive for Covid-19, have been admitted to a hospital in Mumbai.

A person was taken into police custody in the killing of a 33-year-old tech entrepreneur found dismembered inside his luxury Manhattan condo, two law enforcement officials have said.

For the second time in two weeks, the United States has deployed two aircraft carriers to the South China Sea, the US Navy said on Friday, as China and the United States accuse each other of stoking tensions in the region.

Russia expects a deal with AstraZeneca for it to manufacture a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by the pharmaceuticals giant and Oxford University to go ahead despite allegations it has been trying to steal vaccine data, its wealth fund head has said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that normal life would not return in full until November at the earliest, cautioning that nightclubs and soft play areas needed to remain closed while wedding receptions would have to remain capped.

New York police identified a person of interest in the grizzly murder of tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Pathao, Fahim Saleh.

Twitter Inc has said it is delaying the launch of its new Application Programming Interface (API) following the recent hack of several high-profile accounts.

A 15-year-old boy has died from bubonic plague in western Mongolia, according to government health officials. The teenager caught the plague after

Hackers backed by the Russian state are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research from academic and pharmaceutical institutions

Shamima Begum, 20, a woman who had the citizenship of the United Kingdom revoked after she travelled to Syria to join the IS group, should be

Twitter is investigating a massive hack in which high-profile users from Elon Musk to Joe Biden had their accounts hijacked by scammers, who the social network believes targeted its employees to gain access to internal systems.

French rescuers plucked three dozen migrants from the English Channel on Wednesday, bringing to 125 the number picked up since the weekend while trying to make their way to Britain, officials said.

A crucial online data arrangement between Europe and the US was invalidated yesterday, as a top EU court decision over Facebook threw trans-Atlantic big tech into legal limbo.